Man oh man. Interactive Brokers seems to want to botch your progress on of language choice depends on your knowledge of programming. Here I try to explain the Python choices seems to be limited and convoluted. The only real solid option is to go with Java and built a Redis message queue to interface with Python. This seems to be the best option. All sources will be local as well.

 

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